World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Perhaps He Is Human

The six miles from Massacre Bay to
Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk.
Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end
of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight
into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch
there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves.
Reported Correspondent Sherrod:

The results of the Jap fanaticism stagger
the imagination. The very violence of the scene is incomprehensible
to the Western mind. Here groups of men had met their...